photowow.com

Send photowow your photos, and the site will will turn them into a modern-art masterpiece. It won't take much effort, but it will take some bucks. You can choose styles such as Warhol-like pop art, slick collages, vintage hand tintings, and faux watercolors.

The site is very easy to use; it walks you through every step of the process, and you can approve the work and ask for changes before the design is finalized. You can even submit detailed diagrams of what you'd like done.

Of course, there's a hefty design charge; we paid $90 for one piece of four-panel pop art. Then you have to pay for whatever you want the design printed onsemigloss paper, canvas, a hand purse, or other options. We chose a 12- by 12-inch canvas (the smallest size), which ran us another $48.

The final product was very cool: a psychedelic recreation of a standard family snapshot, expertly capturing the look of a hip painting. Yes, the $138 we paid still haunts us. But art lessons would have cost us ten times as much.

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